A little more than 200 of you took our latest poll, which asked: “Is the pace of VC investing (on track for $40B this year) proof of another bubble?” Early on, most folks said no. But the final results show most people think we are in another bubble.

With the recent rash of bad news, as well as ongoing problems like the European debt crisis, we’re wondering how you feel about the business climate for the second half of the year. Please let us know by taking our quick poll.

Early results for our latest poll show that most peHUB readers have no plans to buy shares in the world’s most popular social network, with many of them saying Facebook is overvalued. What do you think?

That was the question we posed to our readers this Thanksgiving holiday. The poll generated a bigger response than I expected. I really thought everyone would be too busy eating, watching football or resting on their couch to vote.

Anyway, it turns out that 59.1% of voters are most thankful for their or their family’s health. Roughly one-fifth, or 18.2%, is happy they have a job. The surprise vote? Nearly 11% are thankful that the McRib is back. And 4.5% are glad the IPO window has opened up a bit.

It has been an interesting question at our Buyouts Texas conference in Dallas, whether the European single currency will survive the current crisis, and what its impact will be on dealmakers in the United States.

Groupon has reduced the size of its IPO, the company disclosed today in its latest regulatory filing, and it might be a good thing, based on peHUB readers’ response to our Question of the Week: Nearly two thirds of you said this stock is going to be a stinker. Another three in 10 thought a […]

And the public has spoken. Er, the private. You guys. The problem with stock market volatility is that it makes private equity fundraising harder, according to 60% of peHUB readers who responded to our Question Of The Week, making that by far your greatest concern about today’s tumultuous markets (click on the chart to enlarge it). […]

UPDATE: We have a winner. One of our perceptive readers wrote in Oswald Gruebel, CEO of UBS, as the most likely next candidate to be shown the door. Indeed, Gruebel resigned on Saturday in the wake of a $2.3 billion trading scandal. The black crepe watch continues for the other candidates on our list. Our earlier post: Most […]

Last night, Hewlett Packard stock soared on speculation that the board may oust Léo Apotheker, its CEO of nearly a year, and perhaps replace him with Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay and former candidate for governor of California. (Update:HP made it official today, announcing that Whitman is its new CEO.)

A new survey of private equity professionals reveals that the growth and popularity of private equity has been coupled with expectations among investors for better disclosure and accountability. Topping a list of 12 factors investors looked for when choosing a private equity firm was the quality of its management team, followed immediately by the clarity of its investment philosophy. In third place was investment performance, rising in importance from 2009, when an earlier version of the poll ranked performance seventh among the 12 factors. Portfolio transparency and fee structure also ranked highly among investors.

The survey of 411 investors, fund managers and advisers was compiled by SEI, a financial outsourcing solutions provider, and Greenwich Associates, a financial research and strategy firm. Forty-nine percent of respondents were from North America, 30 percent in Europe and 21 percent from Asia, Latin America and other parts of the world.

The verdict is in, dear readers: Y’all do expect criminal charges to come down in the Justice Department’s investigation of Wall Street.

The only question is how severe it will be.

Goldman Sachs, whose CEO Lloyd Blankfein hired criminal defense attorney Reid Weingarten this week, actually fared worse than the Street as a whole in our survey. Roughly three-fifths of you expect at least some indictments at the bank as a result of the industry’s behavior leading up to the financial crisis.